[Libloather]

Building America - with less cement. Kinda makes sense...

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Just more insanity ....

Whether the liberals, MSM, Democrats want to admit it... it's not about protecting the environment, it's all about destroying America, America's industry, America's military capability .....

[Son House]

Yep , no longer paving paradise, and there will be no need for parking lots, well, except for the elite.

Kind of senseless to shut down all them contractors after just getting them out of their winter hibernation

[antiunion person]

Obama and his regime want the Americans to build houses just like his dear brother lives in.
If Obomber gets his way, we will be just like his buddies in the Middle East, living in the 1300’s. That way everything will be FAIR for everyone. God only knows that Obomber wants to destroy this country to keep his handlers happy.

[NoLibZone]

We are living chapter 12 of Atlas Shrugged.

[jessduntno]

“Building America - with less cement. Kinda makes sense...”

Cutting down on cement and Cap and Trade killing steel...and then...we ARE Kenya! Mud huts...just like the Obiteme ancestrial family home in a third world shithole...we won’t HELP them, we will BECOME them...

[Don Corleone]

They are all watermelons!

[Cheetahcat]

Simple Obamacrete twice the sand and just enough cement to give a Grey color.

[bornred]

I certainly wouldn’t want to live near one of those things, but local air quality is none of Washington’s damn business.

[Drammach]

Just more governmental, bureaucratic idiocy which will eventually be rescinded.

But the fact is, we don't necessarily need to use "portland" cement for every single construction project in america.
In many instances, mortar is better for foundation work, and concrete using the proper aggregates will work just fine for most structural applications.

After all, the Roman Pantheon is 2000 years old and still standing.
That structure is NOT "reinforced" concrete, nor does it contain any portland cement, as that had not been invented yet.

[ApplegateRanch]

Building America - with less cement.

If spit, chewing gum and baling wire were good enough for....

OTOH, I can just see retreaded Hippies picketing with signs, "Cement relationships, not Mother Gaea!"

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Cement production is a HUGE emitter of CO2 as calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is “calcined” to CaO + CO2 on its trip through the kiln. I’m very surprised this article focused on nitrogen oxides instead of CO2 as a reason to shut down the kilns.

But, if TX takes the CA lead, they use CO2 as another reason to force them out of business. I hear there’s lots of cement we can import from Mexico.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

How many celebrations can Chinese businessmen take over our nation's stupidity and their windfalls from it? Their livers have to be at the "help me" stage.

[AlaninSA]

I think a number of folks are missing the point of the original SA Express-News article. That’s not surprising...since it’s not exactly a decent newspaper.

The point is that San Antonio is ONE tick away from hitting a number of clean air restrictions that we currently do not have to live under. These are things like emissions testing when you register your car...restrictions on industrial emissions, etc. Basically things that would make living here have a number of hurdles that are not currently in place.

It sounds silly...but the city is trying to AVOID regulation by asking the cement plants to do a temporary shutdown. I live about three miles from one of the plants in question.

[halo66]

The biggest story of this is that The EPA just last year changed the 8-hour ozone standard from .080 ppm to .075 ppm...there are many areas in the nation that did not have an ozone problem until the standard was changed. Also...the background level of ozone is ~.045 ppm. So, it does not take much to put a city over the standard.